We love listening to our community, and we're always watching what they're up to, so when Nyght, one of our most loyal fans, released a custom map for Jailbreak: Source and claimed that he'd made a whole new gamemode out of it, we paid attention. The whole team got together and had a play, and that evening we decided that Nyght's map, jbo_pong HAD to be adapted into the new gamemode for Jailbreak: Source 0.5.

So, we took his concept, created a whole new map, fiddled with a few things here and there, and today we announce... DEATHBALL! Check out the trailer and pictures below to see what it's all about!

The concept of Deathball is simple, when the ball is in the goal, the enemy jail is locked. So keep the ball in the goal, and kill off the enemy team! If the ball is out of the goal, the enemy can let themselves straight out! And if the ball is in your goal, you best get it out quick, otherwise you're going to very rapidly find yourself on your own, or vapourised!

The best bit is, the more you get killed, the more points you get, as you're always escaping! So by round two, most players have Level 3 perks and everyone's Stealth/Double Jumping all over the pitch!

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Yeah man! Pong was awesome, it was such a fun map to play and really enforced teamwork, so we knew it was perfect for Jailbreak. As for the picking up the ball thing, we changed to that fairly recently, as we felt it would speed up the game a whole lot and as soon as we changed it, it became insanely fun! Thanks for the comments guys, we can't wait to unleash this on you! Make sure to keep voting too!

Indeed it works almost entirely like the standard Jailbreak maps but with the added dynamic element of the ball, which becomes the key to locking the Jails. There are no escapes other then the reliance of your team to keep the ball out of your own goal.

Hehe! Thanks man, it's rapidly become the beta testers favourite since we began testing... Also I forgot to mention this in the post, but we requested a few months back that people on our forums submit photos of themselves waving their arms in the air like loonies with the promise of appearing in Jailbreak if they did... We had a huge response, and those photographs were then used to make up the crowds all around the stadium :D

I have to say that changing the combine and rebels to dinosaurs and robots ruined the game for me. I'm sorry I loved the mod but the dinosaurs are corny and the robots do not look like they want to kill you.